What’s going on here!

What exactly is science fiction? We all know what the purists say: many of the greatest and most entertaining science fiction films ever made simply do not qualify.

Okay, so the science is lousy or non-existent. The situations are absurd. Nearly human robots shouldn't be making mechanical clunking and grinding noises when they think and spaceships shouldn't scream and whine in a vacuum. Two guys can't design a rocket for the moon and that mad scientist obviously doesn't know the basics of modern biology!

But we all know they're fun.

And in the end, isn't that what matters?

So grab the popcorn, settle back in the big, comfy easy chair and enjoy. After all, it has to be good...

But, Wait! There Will Be More!

Intelligent

Black Rocks jutting out of the sea. Plumes of steam rising here and there. Angry waves pounding the beach. A battered wooden weather station. And a lonely lighthouse perched atop the low island’s highest point. It is a harsh and desolate place that not many people would want to visit — let alone chose as […]

This was Andrew Bellware’s first science fiction film. I’d long had the impression that Millennium Crisis was his first, but three years earlier, he made this cyberpunk detective story about a cop and his partner trying to find an important politician’s murderer in a dystopian future. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Bellware is one […]

What a wonderfully strange film! A detective, called in on what should be a routine murder case is shocked to find that the dead man is himself. Before long, other bodies that look just like him show up, and he even finds another himself running a bowling alley. …And when he finally gets a look […]

A mysterious creature awakens in a remote desert community and proceeds to slaughter the locals. If it sounds familiar, it should. This is a basic monster movie, with a lot of very familiar elements. And that monster is one of them: it’s not a bad design, but it looks far too much like one of […]

Bleak. Stunning. Beautiful. Dazzling. Emotional. Intelligent. Stylish. Perhaps the best SF film anyone has made in a long, long time. But yes, bleak. I never expected that I’d end up going to see a Blade Runner sequel in the theaters. The original was a strange, unrepeatable effort, a film that, as dazzling as it might […]